(944) Hidalgo is a centaur discovered in
October of 1920 and named in September of 1923. It has a perihelion of
2.0 AU and an aphelion of 9.5. Its orbit is between the main asteroids
belt and Saturn. It has a diameter of about 40 km.
It
is named for Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, who was responsible for
declaring Mexico's independence in 1810. German astronomers who were in
Mexico to observe a total eclipse on September 10, 1923, had an
audience with President Álvaro Obregón. During this meeting, they asked
his permission to name the asteroid after Hidalgo y Costilla. (Wikipedia)
'Hidalgo'
is an old word in Spanish language, that comes from the set phrase
"Hijo de algo", meaning son of someone wealth, but untitled as a noble.
Hacienda system
'Hacienda'
is a Spanish word for the buildings construction were live the master
of the land, the workers and is storage the tools for agriculture and
livestock, and foodstaff. The hacienda system was status oriented,
rather than economic oriented.
The movie "The Mark of Zorro" (1920), tells the story of Don Diego de la Vega, a nobleman son of a spanish hacendado that lived in the pueblo of Los Angeles in California at the begining of the nineteen century. Don Diego de la Vega disguises as the Zorro to fight against the injustice of authority and defend the oppressed.
In the year 2010 appeared the Spanish movie "También la luvia (Even the Rain)",
inspired by the Cochabamba protests of 2000, also known as the
Cochabamba Water War, were a series of protests that took place in
Cochabamba, Bolivia's third largest city, between December 1999 and
April 2000 in response to the privatisation of the city's municipal
water supply company Semapa. The new firm, Aguas del Tunari was required
to invest in construction of long-envisioned dam (a priority of Mayor
Manfred Reyes Villa) - so they dramatically raised water rates.
Protests, largely organized through the Coordinator in Defence of Water
and Life, a community coalition, erupted in January, February, and
April, culminating in tens of thousands marching downtown and battling
police. (Wikipedia: Cochabamba Water War)
